GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 295 Single PCB - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 480
GeForce GTX 295 Single PCB
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
GF100
GT200B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2010
June 2009
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
700 MHz
576 MHz
CUDA cores
480
-
Floating-point performance
1,345.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
3,100 million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
480
240
Power consumption (TDP)
295 Watt
289 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
42 billion/sec
46.08
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
896 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
448 Bit
Memory clock speed
1848 MHz (3696 data rate)
2 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
177.4 GB/s
112.9 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVI, Mini HDMI
2x DVI
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
-
DirectX
12 (11_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.3
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.2
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A